Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 p.m. CDT

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — A judge has delayed sentencing for former “The Bachelor” star Chris Soules for leaving the scene of a fatal 2017 accident. The decision comes after Judge Andrea Dryer ruled Tuesday that she will disregard letters from the deceased driver’s relatives. Dryer says the wife and sons of Iowa farmer Kenneth Mosher aren’t victims under state law because Soules was not convicted of causing Mosher’s death.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A southwest Iowa man has filed a free speech lawsuit against a sheriff’s deputy, his supervisor and the county after he was arrested for writing a social media post that profanely criticized the deputy. The ACLU of Iowa filed the lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of Jon Richard Goldsmith, a Red Oak resident who saw an incident and then criticized a deputy, leading the sheriff’s department to charge Goldsmith with third-degree harassment, a misdemeanor. The charge was later dismissed

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Officials say Davenport’s public works department has spent more than $1 million on fighting floods this spring and that figure is expected to rise as the city prepares to hold back future deluges. A provisional flood barricade holding back the Mississippi River ruptured on April 30, sending floodwaters into downtown Davenport. The Quad-City Times reports that Davenport Public Works Director Nicole Gleason says the flooding put pressure on a department with numerous other obligations to manage.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the fire-related death of a woman last year. The Sioux City Journal reports that 52-year-old Robert Mahoney was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years for first-degree arson and five years for involuntary manslaughter, with the sentences to be served one after the other. A jury convicted Mahoney in March of the counts for the death of 51-year-old Wanda Blake.